Widner's 1906 Marriage Certificate.

ID: 5586 ~ Creator: Spokane County Auditor, Marriage Records, 1880-Present, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, [accessed 05/06/2022].

This file appears in: Sex Work in Early Spokane: Sex work was an important economic driver in the growth of the Lilac City.

Abbie Widner left sex work in 1906, when she married W. A. Wyer. Little more is known of her life, but it was a long one, she died in 1964.

This file appears in: Sex Work in Early Spokane: Sex work was an important economic driver in the growth of the Lilac City.

Sex Work in Early Spokane: Sex work was an important economic driver in the growth of the Lilac City.

By Keith Shelton and the Spokane Historical Team

Though first-hand accounts from prostitutes in this era are rare, a set of letters from a Spokane sex worker shed light on "the world's oldest profession."